### Please describe the problem.

See e.g. on [https://github.com/datalad/git-annex/actions/runs/6680765679/job/18154374923](https://github.com/datalad/git-annex/actions/runs/6680765679/job/18154374923)

```
  Repo Tests v10 unlocked
    Init Tests
      init:                                   OK (0.17s)
      add:                                    OK (0.73s)
    addurl:                                   OK (0.57s)
    crypto:                                   FAIL (3.07s)
      ./Test/Framework.hs:86:
      initremote failed with unexpected exit code (transcript follows)
      initremote foo (encryption setup) (to gpg keys: 129D6E0AC537B9C7) 
      git-annex: .git/annex/othertmp/remote.log: hPut: invalid argument (invalid character)
      failed
      (recording state in git...)
      initremote: 1 failed
```

started only recently but consistently:

```
(git)smaug:/mnt/datasets/datalad/ci/git-annex/builds/2023/10[master]git
$> git grep -l 'hPut: invalid argument'
cron-20231027/build-ubuntu.yaml-1289-1c03c8fd-failed/0_test-annex (normal, ubuntu-latest).txt
...
```

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> [[fixed|done]] --[[Joey]]
